The pH Test Procedure and Your Potential For Health

Introduction

Personal responsibility for health has become a popular maxim for the 21st century. We are beginning to implement proactive approaches for health rather than simply reacting to disease. Along the way we are adopting a new perspective - that disease is unnecessary.

For too many years, we, as a nation, have had a tendency to leave the responsibility of our health to others. The general attitude has been, "I'll just do what I want and let the doctor fix me if something goes wrong." Our health care has been remedial; we wait until a problem crops up, then try to remedy it. We have proven that this system doesn't work. It's too painful for our bodies, too disruptive to our lifestyles, and too hard on our personal and national wallets.

With the dawning of a new century, we also have the dawning of greater personal responsibility for our own health. That's why checking pH - the acidity or alkalinity of your urine and saliva - will become as routine as checking your weight, credit card balance, or smoke alarm. Why? Because keeping tabs on your pH gives you an inside look at your health. Keeping track of your pH levels is an opportunity, once you understand the results, to work with your diet and lifestyle and take health into your own hands.

For our purposes, we define pH as your potential for health. pH monitoring reveals your body's ability to handle your diet and lifestyle, alerting you to potential problems before a disease sets in. Diagnosing and curing disease are reactive; whereas monitoring is proactive. The objective of pH monitoring is to find out if your diet and lifestyle are giving your body a fighting chance to be healthy.

This pH guide explains how to check the pH of readily accessible body fluids - urine and saliva - interpret the results, and formulate an appropriate plan of action for your pursuit of health.

We will begin with the basic whats and whys of pH, then move into the how-to and what-does it-all mean.

Note: The concepts presented here are not intended to be used as a substitute for competent professional health care. They are to help you recognize clues that your body is being overstressed by your diet and lifestyle. Part of taking responsibility is to seek good professional care when you need it.

Some people always ask me if all I say is true; how did "Aunt Millie" live to be 85? First, I say that I would like to offer my condolences for Aunt Millie's premature death. It is sad to see someone die so young. You see, I believe that the human body, like all mammals, should live to be well over 100 years old. When you compare the life spans of virtually all mammals, they live well in excess of what would be the equivalent of 120 human years. So, dying at 85 to me is dying young. Secondly, Aunt Millie lived the first half of her life where the amount of toxins being put into the body was a fraction of what it is today. I hear a lot about the alleged fact that we are living longer than ever before. This is categorically not true. Yes, it is true that people lie in nursing homes and hospital beds hooked up to life support devices that keep the physical body alive for years, but realistically these people are not living. The statistics on lifespan are fraudulent and false. The fact of the matter is a person 100 years old should be strong, flexible, full of life and energy, and have the physical capacity of what the average 40-year-old person has. It is amusing to me when you hear the American Medical Association classify someone in their 50s as being "older", and someone in their 60s as being "old". The most amazing part of this is that it is assumed that as you get older, it is "normal" to be on some type of medication. This simply is not true.

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